The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. Alfred Hitchcock on movies
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. Stanley Kubrick on movies
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Orson Welles on movies
If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right. Woody Allen on movies
Everything makes me nervous - except making films. Elizabeth Taylor on movies
It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. Andy Warhol on movies
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. Samuel Goldwyn on movies
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. Alfred Hitchcock on movies
So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? Christina Aguilera on movies
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. Jean-Luc Godard on movies
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. Alfred Hitchcock on movies
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. Jean-Luc Godard on movies
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. Tim Burton on movies
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. Billy Wilder on movies
A film is a petrified fountain of thought. Jean Cocteau on movies
I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. Bette Davis on movies
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing? Samuel Goldwyn on movies
Every great film should seem new every time you see it. Roger Ebert on movies
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. Martin Scorsese on movies